The weather here is getting insupportable to us
for heat. Indeed, if rain do not come within two weeks, I
believe we must wind up our affairs, and make for some shady
place direct:--Scotland is perhaps likeliest; but nothing yet is
fixed: you shall duly hear.--Directly after this, I set off for
Putnam's in Waterloo Place; sign his paper there; stick one
copy under a cover for you, and despatch.--Send me word about all
that you are doing and thinking. Be busy, be still and happy.
Yours ever,
T. Carlyle
CXIII. Emerson to Carlyle
Concord, 15 July, 1846
My Dear Carlyle,--I received by the last steamer your letter with
the copy of the covenant with Wiley and Putnam, which seems
unexceptionable. I like the English side of those men very well;
that is, Putnam seems eager to stand well and rightly with his
fellow-men. Wiley at New York it was who provoked me, last
winter, to write him an angry letter when he declared his
intention to reprint our new matter without paying for it. When
he thought better of it, and came to terms, I had not got so far
as to be affectionate, and have never yet resumed the
correspondence I had with him a year ago, about my own books.
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